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Alive After All:
The Legal One

NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors in Manhattan aren't used to being upstaged. But if Kobi Alexander, the fugitive executive arrested last month in Namibia, makes it stateside to answer stock-option-backdating charges, he will do so across the East River, in a different borough of New York City: Brooklyn.

Ownership of the case -- involving Comverse Technology Inc., which Mr. Alexander co-founded -- is the latest in a string of white-collar cases overseen by the Justice Department's U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn. Known as...